Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument

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The island reef monument may be a U.S. Monument settled off Saint John, Virgin Islands.The clear waters encompassing Saint John support a various and sophisticated system of coral reefs. The health of those reefs is closely tied to its element plants and animals moreover as adjacent non-coral marine environments like Sandy bottoms, seaweed beds, and Rhizophora mangle forests.
Seeking to produce larger Protection to the sensitive reef resources, President established Madonna Islands reef monument on Jan seventeen, 2001. The monument includes twelve,708 acres (51 km2) of federal submerged lands among the three mile (5 km) belt off Saint John, together with cyclone Hole and areas north and south of Saint John.
The coral reefs of the U.S. Island suffered severely from coral bleaching in 2005, that junction rectifier to a hour decline in coral activity. The USGS began in depth analysis within the space and scientists discovered antecedently unknown coral ecosystems at the submerged stems of Rhizophora mangle trees within the cyclone Hole space of the monument. They found regarding thirty of the forty five coral species within the island, that is associate degree astonishing diversity for the tiny space, and were shocked by the amount of sponge species moreover. This can be the primary better-known incidence of corals in a very Rhizophora mangle scheme.

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